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Mike Hlas
I am the sports columnist and Iowa men’s basketball beat writer for The Gazette. I have been at The Gazette since well before TheGazette.com was a thing, but not as long as Charles Grassley has been a U.S. Senator. I have dined with kings and queens, and I have dined on pork and beans. Oh, only the pork and beans part of that is true. I am the most unaffectedly personal columnist in Iowa, and perhaps the world. To verify that, please contact my representation.
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Latest Articles by Mike Hlas
Sports Oct. 11, 2014 1:33 am3992d ago
Indiana is known for many things. Basketball. Auto racing. … Basketball. But Indiana University has a football team, and it …
Oct. 10, 2014 12:34 pm3992d ago
Today is Game 6 for the Iowa and Iowa State football teams, the midway-points of their regular-seasons. This quiz will …
Oct. 9, 2014 4:00 pm3993d ago
A collection of college football media people were invited to Dallas this week to get an idea of what the …
Sports Oct. 9, 2014 12:38 pm3993d ago
Hlastradamus is calling for his athletic director to lay into … well, somebody. The prophet had Rutgers and gave three …
Oct. 8, 2014 4:05 pm3994d ago
Overtime isn’t typically welcomed in NBA exhibition games, but Devyn Marble embraced it Tuesday night and made it his. The …
Oct. 7, 2014 5:27 pm3995d ago
IOWA CITY — One of the odder phenomena of modern life is the reality show. From ‘Mob Wives’ to crab …
Oct. 6, 2014 6:33 pm3996d ago
Bob Bowlsby had no choice, and Jamie Pollard knew what he was going to get. You can’t do what Iowa …
Sports Oct. 6, 2014 12:22 pm3996d ago
Last week in college football was a doozy. Purdue won, Alabama lost. Need I say more? Now, on with the …
Sports Oct. 5, 2014 1:16 pm3997d ago
It was a rather phenomenal week in college football, and Big Ten teams were basically extras. With all the upsets …
Oct. 2, 2014 7:07 pm4000d ago
IOWA CITY – Maybe it was for the best that it rained on the day of Iowa men’s basketball’s annual …
Sports Oct. 2, 2014 12:02 pm4000d ago
Hlastradamus has been there, done that. Been where, you ask. Everywhere. Done what? Almost everything. However, he has never been …
Sep. 30, 2014 3:24 pm4002d ago
Many have gone down Memory Lane since the Kansas City Royals clinched an American League playoff berth last Friday night. …
Sports Sep. 30, 2014 12:30 pm4002d ago
Iowa’s football players come and go, some sooner than others. Here is an update of five former Hawkeyes currently playing …
Sports Sep. 29, 2014 3:44 pm4003d ago
What is it about playing Iowa that seems to discombobulate football teams after they’ve done it? A couple weeks ago, …
Sports Sep. 29, 2014 12:19 pm4003d ago
Week 5 was less than sizzling in college football. The two most-interesting things that happened were at the Minnesota-Michigan game. …